More Planting and Transplating

Next year we want to install shelves along the back wall of the hoop house.  With still three weeks to go before warm temperatures persist, the growing tables are already nearly filled with cucumbers, okra, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and artichoke.  This evening we added eggplant and more tomatoes and peppers transplanted into pots from trays seeded indoors.  Not only will we be giving away loads of tomatoes this year, but we are just about ready to give away tomato plants.

Proudly, all of plants are homegrown from seed, except for two squash that a local boy sold as part of a fundraiser, and one Lima bean that my son planted as a school project.  In the garden we planted beets and more lettuce before a substantial thundershower.  We also put in the ground a handful of frost-bitten tomatoes and artichoke plants to make room in the hoop house.  They are a sort of test.  If it was too early, and they don't make it, we can replace them.  Nighttime lows are predicted to be all over the board this week, as low as 37 and as high as 50.  My gut tells me these plants will all do just fine.